Our first week of February began with the Lunar New Year.  We took time to consider the book, Friends Are Friends Forever, shared by Ms. Hossack in the library.  We created the red ice snowflakes as illustrated in the book.  We hung them in our school garden as a symbol of connection and kindness as a new lunar new year began. 

Our creative process for making the snowflakes began with adding colour to coffee filters, spraying with water and letting the colour bleed through.  We then used red tissue and cut out the snowflake patterns.  A laminate covering acted as our ice and we were able to hang the snowflakes outside despite the weather.

We also continued to celebrate the Year of the Water Tiger with the wearing of red and the symbolic lighting of our lanterns.  We replaced our red lanterns with Colours Of The New Year lanterns that now hang in our room as Rainbow Lanterns of Diversity.

We had so much fun going to Groundhog Weather School and hibernating before waking up on February 2 to see if we had a shadow.  We didn’t see our shadow which means we hope to have an early Spring!

Go Canada Go!  A look into the history of the Olympic Games and connecting with the meaning and purpose of the games led to our Olympic Torch Run and the lighting of our imaginary cauldron.  The experience ignited the ending of our first week of February.  Click on the link for live action footage!

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Jack then connected his learnings from school and experienced the Vancouver Olympic cauldron that was lit for 4 hours at Jack Poole Plaza. It is always a pleasure to see classroom learnings experienced in the real world! 

Mrs. Jefferson also joined in with the February Fun and had students participate in a xylophone sound effect experience connected to a Lunar New Year story.  Check out the link to see and hear the Division 10 performance.

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